✨ Post Office Regulations
JUNE 15. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1715
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873. The number of the contract and full particulars of the service must be shown on all vouchers. Form Acct. 205 (Inland Mails) must on no account be used for sea-mail payments.
874. Contingencies such as lighterage, handling mails, and harbour services generally should be prepared on Form Acct. 227; and, if of an exceptional nature, sent to the Secretary, General Post Office, for approval.
875. Gratuities.—Gratuities are payable to masters or owners of vessels for carriage of mails shipped by such vessels.
876. Postmasters are enjoined to use every endeavour to prevent gratuity being paid on letters sent forward to an office for transmission beyond that office. For example, the gratuity on forward letters on the Wellington Office should not be paid by the office of origin or despatch, but by Wellington.
877. When any service in the carriage of sea-mails is not completed by the master of the vessel to which such mails are delivered at the post-office of despatch, the gratuity for the conveyance of the mails shall be equally divided between the masters of the vessels on which such mails are conveyed to the office of destination.
878. Gratuity bill on Form P.O. 289 must be sent by the final office of transfer to the original despatching office. The Chief Postmaster of the district in which the mails originated will arrange to include in his various monthly statements and vouchers the gratuities due on such mails, allocating the gratuity in equal parts between the steamers performing the service. Care must be taken to see that these mails are not also included among those for which full payment is made.
879. Form P.O. 289 is to be used in all cases in which mails will of necessity be transferred to another vessel. The gratuity bills on P.O. Forms 26 and 289 are to be used as circumstances require. Their objects are different, and their use should not be confounded.
880. Particulars of mails are to be kept in the special book supplied to Chief Postmasters and all seaport offices in order to facilitate the determination of the amount of gratuity earned by each steamer.
881. The following are the rates payable as gratuities on ship-mails per non-contract vessels :—
Letters for delivery beyond the colony .. 2s. a pound.
Letters for delivery within the colony—
Interprovincial .. .. .. 1s. ,,
Provincial .. .. .. 4d. ,,
Printed matter for delivery beyond the colony £1 10s. a ton.
Printed matter for delivery within the colony £1 5s. ,,
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Sea Mail-service Payments and Classification
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsSea mail-service, Payments, Contract services, Gratuities, Contingencies
🚂 Regulations for Sea Mail-Service Payments and Gratuities
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsSea mail-service, Gratuities, Postmasters, Ship-mails, Vessel payments, Inland mails